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Language-Specific Properties of the Lexicon: Implications for Learning and Processing
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Vigliocco, Gabriella; Kita, Sotaro – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2006
This paper presents a discussion of the constraints imposed on lexicalisation during production by language-specific patterns, such as whether words exist in a language to describe a given event and whether language-specific syntactic and phonological information correlates with semantic properties. First, we introduce in broad strokes relevant…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Vocabulary Development, Language Patterns, Semantics
The Parsing of Prosody.
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Beckman, Mary E. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1996
Considers the fact that prosody is a grammatical (phonological) structure that must be parsed. The article describes prosodic categories marked by intonational pattern for English and Japanese, concentrates on "pitch accent" and tonally marked "phrases," and discusses potential ambiguities in parsing these categories. (60…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, English, Grammar, Intonation